A man who had the nerve to impersonate a prominent Catholic Bishop is being made to pay for his criminal act.

Men of the Nigeria Police Force

The man identified as one Jehu Kwasu, 25, has been arrested by the police.

Kwasu was arrested by the FCT Police Command for allegedly
impersonating the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, His Lordship
Matthew Kukah, to defraud members of the public.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, presenting the
accused to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, the FCT Commissioner of Police,
Mr Muhammad Mustafa, said the suspect was arrested on Aug. 15 in Kaduna
by personnel of the command.

He said that Kukah had complained to the command on the activities of the suspect.

“We received a complaint from Kukah through our unit that is investigating the matter which arrested the suspect,” he said.

He said that the Bishop had been informed of the arrest of the
suspect who was a habitual criminal, adding that he was currently on
remand.

The commissioner said that the command would continue with the
investigation diligently to ensure the prosecution of the suspect.

He advised members of the public to be alert and to report any criminal activities to the security operatives. “Any scam that you suspect should be reported to the police, whether on your e-mails, telephone calls and SMS,” he said.

The suspect who confessed to the crime, said that he opened an
account at the GTB in the name of Kukah and solicited for money from the
public to assist IDPs.

“My name is Jehu Kwasu, I impersonated Bishop Matthew Kukah, I collected quite a huge amount of money from people in his name.

“When I opened the account in GTB, I called people on phone for
support for IDPs to channel the money to them but instead I channeled
the money to myself,” he said.

He said that he was arrested by the police when he went to the bank
to make withdrawal from the account which the victims paid money into.

Kwasu said that he usually called his victims through their phone
numbers which he got from the Internet and true caller application. He
said that he decided to use the name of the Bishop to defraud members of
the public because of his personality in the country.

The suspect who had defrauded prominent Nigerians of millions of
Naira, said that his attempt to defraud former Senate President, David
Mark failed.

The political science graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, said
that he took to the crime because of the hardships in the country.

NAN reports that the suspect, a son of an Anglican Bishop, late
James Kwasu, had before this arrested been also arrested for
impersonating Bishop Stephen Akobe of the Kabba Anglican Diocese.